[PDF] Discourses On The First Decade Of Titus Livius eBook

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 2018-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 8026885007

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Machiavelli saw history in general as a way to learn useful lessons from the past for the present, and also as a type of analysis which could be built upon, as long as each generation did not forget the works of the past. In "Discourses on Livy" Machiavelli discusses what can be learned from roman period and many other eras as well, including the politics of his lifetime. This is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th. The title identifies the work's subject as the first ten books of Livy's Ab urbe condita, which relate the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BC. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer. He has often been called the father of modern political science. He was for many years a senior official in the Florentine Republic, with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He served as a secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.He wrote his most well-known work The Prince in 1513, having been exiled from city affairs.

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827863

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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime, and the most prominent themes of his thought, including the founding, evolution, and corruption of republics and principalities, class conflict, liberty, arms, religion, ethics, rhetoric, gender, and the Renaissance dialogue with antiquity. In his own time Machiavelli was recognized as an original thinker who provocatively challenged conventional wisdom. With penetrating analyses of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Art of War, Florentine Histories, and his plays and poetry, this book offers a vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker as well as assessments of his place in Western thought since the Renaissance.

Author : Diogo Pires Aurélio
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004442073

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Original scholarly essays by leading philosophers, which bring to life Machiavelli’s lengthiest and most challenging work.

Author : Gabriele Pedullà
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1107177278

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Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.

Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781499376463

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Discourses on The First Decade of Titus Livius

Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2015-08-22
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ISBN : 9781297959301

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Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781330568620

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Excerpt from Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius I send you a gift, which if it answers ill the obligations Niccolo Machiavelli has it in his power to offer. For in it I have expressed whatever I have learned, or have observed for myself during a long experience and constant study of human affairs. And since neither you nor any other can expect more at my hands, you cannot complain if I have not given you more. You may indeed lament the poverty of my wit, since what I have to say is but poorly said; and tax the weakness of my judgment, which on many points may have erred in its conclusions. But granting all this, I know not which of us is less beholden to the other: I to you, who have forced me to write what of myself I never should have written; or you to me, who have written what can give you no content. Take this, however, in the spirit in which all that comes from a friend should be taken, in respect whereof we always look more to the intention of the giver than to the quality of the gift. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022623097X

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The esteemed philosopher’s assessment of good, evil, and the value of Machiavelli. Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli’s doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of The Prince and Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy. “We are in sympathy,” he writes, “with the simple opinion about Machiavelli [namely, the wickedness of his teaching], not only because it is wholesome, but above all because a failure to take that opinion seriously prevents one from doing justice to what is truly admirable in Machiavelli: the intrepidity of his thought, the grandeur of his vision, and the graceful subtlety of his speech.” This critique of the founder of modern political philosophy by this prominent twentieth-century scholar is an essential text for students of both authors.